What are the pros and cons of contracting Fan Milk Ghana Ltd to custom-produce your product line?

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As the new owner of a local ice cream store located in a strip mall adjacent to a university campus, you are contemplating how to organize your business – whether to make your ice cream in-house or outsource its production to Fan Milk Ghana Ltd., whose brand is in most of the local supermarkets; and how much authority to delegate to the two assistant store managers and employees working at the counter and cash register. You plan to sell 20 flavors of ice cream.

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  1. What are the pros and cons of contracting Fan Milk Ghana Ltd to custom-produce your product line?
  2. Since you do not plan to be in the store during all the hours it is open, what specific decision-marketing authority would you delegate to the two assistant managers?
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